Sorta a sudden decision to go back Penang

Yes, I am back to Penang with my hometown friends. Though he already told me that he was coming back last week and asked if i wanted to join him, then at that time I just could not make my decision since I have keyboard lesson on Thursday night and occasional tutorial class on Friday morning.

So, after I got the message from my keyboard teacher that he had to cancel yesterday night class (because he still hasnt got the permit yet.WTF la, please, we already pay you, can't you just use those money to rent a room?? I suspected that he did not rent the room at all for my last level of lesson). After that, my mind was started to bristle with million of thoughts, I was in a VERY CRUEL LECTURER class, and I just could not find myself to stay focus on the lecture. Thoughts like "Should I go back later?" "Since my mom only will be back from Thailand tonight, would it be a 'waste' to go home?" "I have to skip my tomorrow tutorial class?"...etc...So to be safe, I texted my tutor and got the big good news that there would not be tutorial class. This freaking news made me freakingly lost my focus more. So, I quickly sms my friend YX to tell him I finally made up my mind to go back with him and he told me we would depart on 5.30pm. Since, my lecturer was until 5pm and considering the 15minutes journey I had to walk from my faculty back to my hostel, that meant I only left with 15 minutes to pack!

After I reached my room, I started to expeditiously cram in some usual stuff you would pack when you are travelling into my luggage bag. My roomate was quite surprised to see me going back (I am the 1 that rarely go back home amongst the 3 of us). And what made him more astounded was, I would go home right away. The situation was like this...

#I am hurriedly packing up, then

Roomate: " You are going back home ar"

Me: " Yes"

This got a bit surprise him la. Later I received my friend call that he already waiting me downstair, so I quicken up my packing, then my roomate asked me another question.

Roomate: " Going back now ar?"

Me: "yes"

And then he gave me an astonished look. I think because the whole process from me walking into my room and out again was only within 10minutes, and he just can't believe how a person would go home/travelling without any early planning. ##

And en route for home, I found this (see the picture below) was in my pocket.. Wow, I was quite amazed by myself how would i react when I was not completely focus.

Padlock to lock my locker

This picture was taken because I had the sudden urge to see how would I look like with my hair tied up and showing my bare forehead (ahai said my forehead is so high enough that people can play a mahjong game on it!).

And found an online free application (stumble across it visiting someone's blog) that you can download to make your picture goes poladroid feel. Click here to link to their page and download this cool application!

A few funny/ embarrassing/ irritating signs

When I first time found out this notice (it is pasted above the toilet bowl) I was like "omg, this is so funny and embarrassing, what if the girl that comes to use guy toilet and sees this (the girls don't use their toilet because it is always monopolized by someone else, so they have to use ours instead wasting their time waiting for the monster inside the lady washroom to come out)

This is really irritating when you need to withdraw your money. Come across this umpteen times recently. WTF

Election and Reunion Dinner

In order to practise my writing again, I have psyched up myself to at least come up with an entry per week. Let's talk about what happened around me in these few days!

Phew.....finally, UM annual election is over and according to what my friends said (I am not interested at all to go find out who won), The Pro-Mahasiswa candidates have won all the seats. And as many know, UM election is quite a BIG event! It is really big as you can see all kind of big and ridiculous news on newspaper during the election week. Not to venture deeper in these 'political' issue, I would like to show you what had happened night before the election day.

The canvass/ demonstration when I was having my supper with some friends. This was the chaotically topsy-turvy scene I managed to capture with my lousy camera phone.

And on Monday night, I had my reunion dinner with all my chinese hostel friends at Dynasty Dragon Seafood Restaurant. This was my first reunion dinner with my kolej firends as I missed this annual dinner last year because I had to prepare for dance competition that time.

Dynasty Dragon Seafood Restaurant located in newly open SS 2 Mall

Tofu

Vegetable soup

Gu Lou Yok (Sweet sour Pork)

Sweet + salty + tinge of spiciness fish

an indescribable scrumptious chicken

Lou Sang ( a dish with crispy yam surrounded mixed vegetables )

I am sorry for my lack of words to describe or name the food properly. Overall, I was quite satisfied with the dinner. My favourite dish of that night: the chicken.

Group picture before the dinner started. All 2nd year guys except that third year girl.

After the dinner, we ( kyle, sl, bs, william, jun and me) continued with singing K session at Neway in ONE Utama Mall.

English

I am writing this because someone urged me to do so and commenting that "your blog did not update for Dinosaur age already". And, since our Vice Chancellor wants us to improve our English and so the University Malaya ranking in top 100 in 5 years, let's talk about English.

Well, writing in English is not a major issue of me now, they are many other aspects that I need to improve. Firstly, I want to express my boundless gratitude to my english tuition teacher, Mr Wong H. Soon, aka Mr Wong Handsome(he always praises himself like that)! Without him I can never write properly. He teaches me of how to use those bombastic words superfluously and most importantly, constructing sentences with correct grammar. I know I still make errors now and then, but I have improved a lot. I really mean alot! By quantum leap.

However, if you want me to speak in English, I find it quite hard to do so, especially when I am 'forced' to speak. Example of those forced-to-speak-English-circumstances: presentation, impromptu speech, speaking with a very proficient english speaker...It feel sucked you know for being not able to speak or to convey your message properly. And i had this abominable experience for consecutive 2 weeks in my Critical thinking class where my lecturer wanted me to talk anything impromptuly for just 1 minute and presenting of the topic given by him. I had done it quite badly and now I am feeling so inferior.

So, what should i do now to improve my speaking? Speaking english with my classmates always seem like a good option. And you thought I never try that before? It doesn't work for me, since they just reply me back with mandarin and then I will loose my interest to talk in English anymore. How about try mixing with the foreigner students?? It sounds good too, but too bad I have no the courage to take the initiative to talk with them. And there's some personal reasons that repel me from getting near to them too actually.

So, what is your opinion? How do you improve your speaking fast and effectively??

The Sims 3 Outdoor Living Stuff

I have gotten The Sims 3 Outdoor Living stuff finally.

Well, as the title said, it is a stuff pack. So do not expect any additional new changes/ game interaction made into the stuff pack. It is just a pack with STUFFs. It is the third stuff pack released by EA. The other two releases are The Sims 3 High-end-loft stuff and The Sims 3 Fast Lane Stuff. Well, it is outdoor living! So, all the items in the pack are generally designed to be placed outside home (you can still put them indoor if you want).

Ok, let's get to the game.

After installing and loading up the game, you will come to this new startup screen which is kinda cool + pleasant looking + relaxing (may be)..I really love the new startup screen besides the The Sims 3 Late Night.

The Sims 3 Late Night startup screen

The Sims 3 Outdoor Living Stuff ( see? It is really nice, right?)

There are two new hair styles, one for female and one for male respectively. The female hair is good, but the male one is sucksssss. Below shows some of the new objects in this stuff pack!

Female new hairstyle

My favourite outfit of all the others from this stuff pack, it is so pretty!

Various shirts and shorts for men. Take note of the slipper. It is new too! See the hairstyle?? It is really horrible~

Below shows some of the objects come in buy mode.

Outdoor kitchen 1. New stuff in the picture including : the mini refrigerator above a brick nectar rack, BBQ grill, counter, sink and outdoor lamps that can be place on top of floor/table/counter

Outdoor kitchen 2: Counter with the barstool

Outdoor lamps

Dining table and iron wrought chairs

Drink bar and terrariums

Hot tubs, outdoor stereo, outdoor gnome, and outdoor tv.

Hot tubs! For those who does not own late night but year for the hot tubs, grab this stuff pack at the nearest game store now!

The easel

And i really want to recommend this house which i download from http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=433837. Click in the link for more details. I am lazy to upload more photos...

Here is Rose Greenman standing in Olympian Physique gym (included in February The Sims 3 Store item). For those who are wondering who is Rose Greenman, she is a plant sim found in The Sims 2. Well, she is not really a Plant Sims in The Sims 3 because Plant sims life stat is not introduced in this game yet. Rose Greenman also be found in Riverblossom Hills, a world created by kiwi_tea which is a remake of the Riverblossom neigbourhood in The Sims 2. I love this world, because it is so nicely created. The are many picturesque destinations, creepy vampire bar, seaside dance club and many more waiting you to explore.

Here is the link to the world: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=429780

Talk no more. Grab a copy of the game, download the world and start playing away! Happy simming~

The Sims 3 Late Night

Are you so excited when seeing the The Sims 3 Late Night trailer, where in the bar there is a crowd of people having their great time hanging out, dancing together, drinking or even bar brawling?

Just like almost every one of you. I too was quite anticipating until I got my hand on this new game. Actually, I was quite disappointed when my sims visit a bar/lounge where it is called "Hotspot of the day", but with no even single other sims in the lot. Besides, the operation hour is just too short. Mostly the clubs/lounges/bars are closed at either 2/3/4am. I am so furious when my sims are kicked out of the lot when they are just about to enjoy their night out.

There is a guy whose name is Neverent has come out slight modification to the game so that it will "fool" your computer into giving your club fulls!

The steps are really simple and safe if you follow the instructions below really carefully.

1)Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts

2) Right click the Sims 3 Late Night folder in there.
3) Click properties.

4) Uncheck the "read only" option. Then click Okay.

5) A pop up box prompting you to make that folder writable or every file in the folder. We want everything in the folder to be writable. Click OK.

6) Click Ok again when the message saying you need the administrator rights to do anything with the file.

7) Then go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 Late Night\Game\Bin.

8) Open up a file called "GraphicsRules.sgr" by using Notepad.

9) Click CTRL + A to select all the scripts in the notepad. Click CTRL + C (or right clicking your mouse) and copy the text.

10) Go to desktop and right clicking. Choose "Text Document".

11) Paste (CTRL+V) the text into this new text document.

12) Save the file name as "GraphicsRules.sgr" same as the one in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 Late Night\Game\Bin.

13) Look for the follwing section of code ( it's almost at the top)

seti cpuLevelUber 4

seti cpuLevelHigh 3
seti cpuLevelMedium 2
seti cpuLevelLow 1

change the number at the end of those 4 sentences into something like this

seti cpuLevelUber 4
seti cpuLevelHigh 4
seti cpuLevelMedium 4
seti cpuLevelLow 4

14) Save your file which is in the desktop.

15) Go back to the folder from which you copied the "GraphicsRules.sgr" file just now.

16) Cut this file out and paste it into another folder you like except your desktop. This is done as a "back up" measurement.

17) Cut the file "GraphicsRules.sgr" on your desktop which you just changed the numbers into all 4.

18) Paste it into the folder that you just cut the original "GraphicsRules.sgr" from.

19) You are done! test the game.

20) Check your newspaper to find out which is the hotspot and enjoy you outing seeing a crowd of sims in the same clubs!

21) If something went wrong ( I BEAR NO RESPONSIBILITIES of this), just replace the "GraphicsRules.sgr" in your game folder with your original file.

Hehe. To get rid the problem of the operation time, you may consider putting this mod into you game.

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=424916

Read the mod description to download the ONE (just one) option you think best suits you.

And Happy Simming!

This place contains almost 14 sims!

About 10 sims in this place too!

IPhone4 & Me.

The long awaited IPhone 4 has finally available in Malaysia. Everyone is so exciting about this new upgraded smartphone and successor to IPhone and IPhone 3GS. The sleek and sophisticated did manage to grab my attention! I was so fascinated as my classmate, Joo Ean suggested we buy the new phone together. Since my current mobile phone, K800i looks quite old, unattractive and dull, I had this sudden urge that burgeoned rapidly within me when Joo Ean told me about her plan.

However, after mulling over and over about the pros and cons of buying the iPhone, I had to convince myself it is unworthy for me. I mean, it is not so suitable with me and somehow I feel that it is unnecessary for me to spend this prodigious amount of money to buy this highly-coveted phone.

Buy me or not?

I can only think of 2 advantages over the many many disadvantages. Here’s what I had been thinking:

Advantages:

1) its design is sleek and attention-getting. Everyone would turn their head when they see me using the phone (you’re so vain!)

2) I felt that it will always stay in trend

Disadvantages:

1. I won’t use up all the applications in the phone, they will be wasted. so they become unnecessary for me.
2. If I bought the phone, I will not have any more money to spend on other things like going shopping, watching movie or dining out with friends with sumptuous and scrumptious food.
3. I really can buy many new shirts, shoes, bags….that i really wanted.
4. New camera may be
5. or a MP4 player?

This was what I got after considering much for every aspect and how the phone will cost me (if i ever buy it la). If I subscribe for the cheapest plan in DIGI (RM58 per month), I will have to pay up to 2 years (24 x RM58 = RM1392). This is just for the basics monthly phone usage, without adding the extra that you would incur if you exceed the quota. Besides, the phone itself already cost RM2090. So if I buy and subscribe the DIGI plan, then they will add up to a GRAND total of RM3482 which I can use to buy a decent high end laptop already! I would rather buy the latter because….(no need me to explain the advantages of owning a laptop right?)Furthermore, I would have to scrimp and save in this 2 years because I wont have any money left for each month. No more shopping. No more entertainment. And no more outings with friends.

So, in order to ‘reward’ myself for my self-control act, I went to shopping at Times Square and Sungei Wang with Jun Hui and her sister yesterday. Initially, I was only planning to watch a movie at Mid Valley. But,knowing that they would go to Sungei Wang to Sing K, I quickly agreed and joined them. We had a fun day there and bought a few things too in order to pamper myself.

A chinese zombie black V-neck tshirt.

A skin tight jeans. I had been longing for it for very long time as I am really bored with my old blue jeans.

A pair of converse sneakers. It is out-dated, but they look good with my jeans!

A belt. I got it together with the skinny jeans at Shibuya with some discount.

A Puma bag. Got it a month ago at Timesquare too.

And these were what we had for our dinner:

Small servings but nice. The sauce is simply irresistible!

Apple green tea juice.

My order. A dessert which tastes like marker pen because it contains almond.

Though I cannot own the iPhone, I still can have very much fun with other things!